Rufus Wainwright

I was reared on folk music.

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I love being not cool.

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I am ridiculously high-maintenance.

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Mowing your lawn is against nature.

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I have a good face for what I do.

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Let the little fairy in you fly!

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Life is the longest death in California,

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I like to try new things.

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To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

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Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself

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I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

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I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

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That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

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You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

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'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

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My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.

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I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

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I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the…

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I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at…

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In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem…

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Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober…

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I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind…

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My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

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I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of…

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Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her…

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I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world…

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New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,…

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Being with the president’s daughter, no matter who the president is, you are connected to the most powerful political force on earth,…

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I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe…

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Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of…

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For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things…

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I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were…

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The pop world is popular, and it's about what the people want and connecting to the masses, whereas opera, although it was…

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My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened…

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I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as…

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When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it…

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There is no way that I could say that I am going to be Mahler or Mozart. But no one is. And…

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I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your…

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It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course,…

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